Yesterday, the Bucks County Courier Times reported: "[...] Capt. Christine E. Munch said six of the unit´s A-10 Thunderbolt II fighters will arrive Tuesday afternoon, with another six A-10s and 50 troops arriving in the following days. [...]" Source: http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/ ... 94594.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The 14th EFS from Misawa AB is already on their way to Joint Base Balad for USAF´s AEF 5/6 (Cycle 7) rotation (September - December 2008).
Check: http://www.misawa.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123116230" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?sect" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ... icle=57567
Note: During Misawa´s previous F-16C OIF deployments their deployed fighter packages made a first stopover in Australia and probably a second stopover at Al Udeid.
Dutchmil! Have you archived any first-hand logs with related serial numbers? BTW: Documenting the recent 421st EFS and 77th EFS OIF deployments to Joint Base Balad is still very difficult. Depending on released USAF photos, only a few couple of serial numbers is known to me. Tomorrow, I will post all related serial numbers provided by USAF shots.
If I rember right, the following Vipers were documented by USAF photos as part of the AEF 3/4 (Cycle 7) rotation (May - August 2008):
421st EFS from Hill AFB
88-0452 421st FS
88-0463 4th FS
89-2105 421st FS
77th EFS from Shaw AFB
88-0436 34th FS (marked 12TH AF)
90-0826 77th FS
93-0550 55th FS (photographed at Shaw during take off for deployment - could be also only an air spare)
93-0552 55th FS
94-0049 55th FS (marked 9 AF)
97-0111 55th FS
It would be very helpful to get full logs of their re-deployments!
The final six A-10s arrived tonight at Willow Grove as Huron 91-96 from Lajes.
Supporting KC-10 Blue 41 landed at KWRI and C-17 RCH491 went to Willow Grove aswell.
And more A-10s should be departing from CONUS to Lajes tonight.
It was a morning filled with hugs, smiles and tears at the South Dakota Air Guard Base.
More than 275 members of the 114th Fighter Wing arrived in Sioux Falls Friday greeted by family and friends. The guard members had been stationed in Iraq for most of the summer.
A half dozen of the guard's F-16 fighter jets also flew in from Iraq. (emphasized by J.J.)
Tonight on KELOLAND News, we'll meet one of the guard members who had quite a surprise waiting for him as he stepped off the plane.
falcon wrote:last tuesday 5 prowlers landed on lajes. They departed today. the unit was VMAQ-3 and one of them was 163030. sorry no futher details........
They arrived at Cherry Point MCAS about an hour ago as Mazda 91 flight. Supporting tankers were Blue 42 to Grand Forks AFB, Blue 43 to Andrews and KC-10 Blue 44 to McGuire AFB.
Hi all!!
My big vacations (3 months and 10 days) at Lajes went to an end and once again I'm back in the mainland. On those 3 months we got some very poor days with almost no movs at all, but we got some days with LOTS of aircraft. Here you have part of the log file, Septembers file will be here soon.
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